Rucker v. Stark

Hawkins, Justice.

The Commissioners of Roads and Revenues of Banks County, Georgia, brought their petition for rule against the solicitor-general, the clerk of the superior court, and an ex-sheriff of the county, to require them to pay over to the county treasurer certain funds alleged to be in their hands arising from fines, forfeitures, and condemnation proceedings, which it is alleged the county is entitled to recover. The original petition alleged that it was brought under Code § 24-206 et seq. In the briefs for the plaintiffs in error it is insisted that they have a right to proceed under…